Just kids

Just Kids

This was the summer of love and also the summer of restlessness. A chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people to the path of art, dedication and enlightenment.
Later, Patti Smith would become a poet and performer, while Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his provocative style toward photography. But now, they were just two hungry young men, wandering the city, swept away by innocence and passion. From Coney Island to 42nd Street, they felt the pulse of the city, ultimately arriving at "Max's Kansas City." At that famous round table, Andy Warhol, the "Pope of Pop," was no longer present, but his royal family still adored it.
In 1969, the year man landed on the moon, they settled into the Chelsea Hotel and quickly became part of a community of the notorious and the famous, meeting the most influential artists of the time and all sorts of marginalized outsiders.
It was a time of heightened consciousness, when the worlds of poetry, rock, art, and gender politics collided and exploded. In this atmosphere, the two children pledged to watch over each other. They were fiercely ambitious romantics, completely devoted to their creations, and ignited by each other's dreams and aspirations. During the hungry years, they took turns providing each other with inspiration and nourishment.
Just Kids begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. It's a celebration of New York in the 1960s and 1970s, as the city was emerging as the cultural capital of the Western world. It chronicles its riches and its poverty, its hoodlums and its thugs. It tells a true story, painting a portrait of a young artist on the rise, and the prelude to fame that follows.

2017-01-01

广西师范大学出版社

Ideal Country

408

9787549588503